$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
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(Awful burning meltdown of an IT disaster)
(Guy in suit and tie turns up) “oh for fuck’s sake…”
(Purple dog fursuiter turns up) “LET’S GO we’re fuckin’ SAVED!”
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien emerged. It skittered to a notice board and carefully studied one of the posters.
It returned to the spaceship and soon came out carrying a cat and a mobile phone.
"Hi, we have found your cat Pebbles...Yes... Our secret base on Ganymede."
There’s something about the moment just before the arrow flies, like the world knows something’s about to change.
Somehow, even in any tension, Cifer makes it look easy. It’s not just about hitting the mark. It’s about choosing when to let go, and why.
Picture for Cifer, the jackal.
Digital. Procreate
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We can ruin the biosphere enough to make ourselves go extinct, but life will go on. Something else will evolve to take advantage of whatever wreck we leave behind!
It really is about self-preservation, and presenting it as "caring for the environment" or "saving the planet" doesn't quite express that. Perhaps we need to make more noise about the fact that we need to do these things to save ourselves.
Somewhere, somebody woke up today with the intent to create another layer of make
tooling on top of all existing layers.
Don't be that person.
LRT (and https://mas.to/@skeletor/114331219477659538 if it embeds): hang this inspirational poster up in your workplace. When your boss gives you shit to do that is not actually your job, read the poster visibly. If your boss doesn't get the message soon enough, you will.
Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.Daniel Williams (Mast Database)
A free and open source VR music visualization website. Surf the musical road among the stars, moon, and lights.moonrider.xyz
important
You got a mail!! And your messenger assures you are good news.
He flies past through the clouds just to make sure it gets to you in time.
Picture for Brokenwing
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"You know, if this is a software development team, there's something very strange about it."
"You mean the way the C stays steady as a rock and the build system keeps washing up and down? Yes, I thought that was odd too."
This #FursuitFriday a Drgn poses with his creation!
For ConFuzzled one year I built an oversized NES controller that ran a Pi with a NES emulator on.
The buttons were simple wood flaps with guitar stomp pedal switches in. So we're fairly robust things o.o
Was very pleased with how it came together ^_^ it kinda required 2 people to play!
Pest is too. "I maded dis!"
Pls continue to share this one!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
i think game companies are finally realizing that [checks notes] letting your workers actually finish what they're working on is better than [checks notes again] rushing unfinished product out the door for profit because you can actually maximize profit by making better products that are complete
funny how these business folks have to relearn these concepts through brute force
Lieutenant Commander Inari and Lieutenant Commander Velux aboard the USS Cerritos, keeping the chaos on the Lower Decks just the right amount of chaotic.
Picture for @inari and @Velux
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The Petalinux third party EULA from Xilinx is 287MB of raw ASCII text.
To compare, a King James Bible is about 4.3MB.
Average speeding speed reportedly peaks around 350 wpm.
Approximately 780,000 words in the bible (average word length is thus about 6).
So the average person could in theory read a bible through in about 37 hrs, or reading for 8 hours a day, about 5 days.
To read through this very important license agreement, at the same rate, would take just shy of 300 days (with no days off).
I'm told online that company legal reps start at about $100 an hour. So we're looking at an estimated low end cost to review the EULA by legal of $238,000.
Yeah. I'm sure every company using Petalinx does that.
@Dss yeah, wasn't new to me, just what annoyed me yesterday. ;)
Though this wasn't AI, they just gathered every license for every package they included in the nearly 3GB of mostly open-source software, and pasted it all together, whether there were duplicates or not. I bet even Xilinx's lawyers don't know what's in there.
Crazy on that example you gave though.
Nabokov didn't ride bikes, I guess, but also read the "printed notice (in three languages, with mistakes in at least two) on the wrapper of some soap or toothpaste".
(The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, 1941)
Well that was unexpected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PSvN3VSyI
Les Fo’plafonds, reprennent la musique du célèbre titre, The Final Countdown, du groupe très connu Europe.Clip toujours aussi original, réalisé sans instrume...YouTube
I started poking around AO3 (archiveofourown) a few days ago looking for more stuff I might be interested in, and was surprised how quickly I found stuff I was interested in. For example, this (a nice little vignette with foxtaurs in), and this (a short sciencey-fictiony story about a faceless drone collective).
I'm working on my own stuff to put out there too, but it's going oh-so-slowly. I want to show it to people who might be interested, but I want to show them finished things instead of janky agglomerations of half-finished stuff.
And in even more Nintendo hates it's customers and game preservation news, The latest update to their TOS says that they can disable your Switch if you modify it or do other legal things like use it to back up your games.
They're really showing their colors here. And they're not cheery ones.
Horrible decision Netflix. So pissed they're taking off a wonderful episode of Black Mirror (which now has a sequel of sorts in the new season) and there probably isn't going to be a way to get a physical copy.
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/black-mirror-bandersnatch-removal-netflix-1236392097/
Netflix is removing its last interactive titles, including 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,' on May 12, 2025.Todd Spangler (Variety)